What is Spenserian
Stanza?
The Spenserian stanza (named for Edmund Spenser, who
invented it for his romance The FaerieQueene) consists of nine iambic lines rhyming in the pattern ababbcbcc. Each of the first eight lines
contains five feet, and the ninth contains six. The rhyming pattern helps to create
unity, and the six-foot line, called an alexandrine,